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Sundance: ‘The Chinese Mayor’ Offers Rare Look Into China’s City Rule

Raymond Legaspi   |

Feb 02, 2015 06:41 AM EST

To the Western world, China conjures images of iron-fisted rule that has little regard for the rights of the little folk, the masses of ordinary citizens. But the Sundance Film Festival documentary "The Chinese Mayor" may just soften those tough images as it reveals the true score in running a typical city in China with a 1.5 million population.